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LIBERTY:

After winning a malicious prosecution by the FTC costing a man $130,000 in attorneys fees, the FTC illegally publishes his personal information on its website. I'm sure they'll claim this was just a mistake. Mistake or not, this is intolerable, yet it's inevitable under a system that gives government so much power.

"Not surprisingly, the FTC does not accept such excuses at face value when regulating private businesses. For example, in February 2009, CVS Caremark settled FTC charges that the company "failed to take reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect the sensitive financial and medical information of its customers and employees." The FTC alleged that CVS pharmacies "discarded materials containing personal information...in unsecured, publicly-accessible trash dumpsters on numerous occasions." The company was cited for both failing to adopt adequate privacy policies and failing to train employees on how to handle sensitive information. (In addition to the FTC settlement, CVS also paid a $2.25 million fine to the Department of Health and Human Services.)"

It's an innocent mistake when government does it, but if you or I do it, expect the hammer of government to fall on our heads.

SOCIALISM:

GE, next to the government feed trough looking for a bailout, says corporate executives are mean and greedy and there should be more equality in the economy. The article never mentions GE's troubles and relationship to government. Once again a CEO has reminded us that big corporations are no friends of free markets.

ECONOMY:

This evolving unemployment movie is reminiscent of the progress of a plague.

TAX AND SPEND:

Great Britain imposes 50 percent tax on bank bonuses. Barney Frank salivates.

Do we really need a scholar to tell us we're spending ourselves deeper into debt, not out of a recession? Yes. We need that as often as we can possibly get it.

"While a dedicated segment of the intelligentsia continues to believe in simplistic Kindergarten Keynesianism, average Americans are increasingly leery. Businesses and entrepreneurs are hesitant to invest and hire because of the uncertainty surrounding the President’s agenda for higher taxes, higher energy costs, health care mandates, and greater regulation. The economy will eventually recover despite the government’s intervention, but as the debt mounts, today’s profligacy will more likely do long-term damage to the nation’s prosperity."

I could read and post something like this everyday. The aristocrats and their accomplice press have learned that flooding the information space with bull**** spreads the big lie that enables them to steal money and power from us like no other technique before. Spreading the the truth requires the same commitment to flooding the information space.

Tax cheat Lord Geithner, who will never be satisfied with less than absolute power over all wealth in the world, says TARP must be extended.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

North Korea dumps old currency and issues new currency, wiping out the cash holdings of every comrade except the politically connected ones, of course. Coming soon to a central bank near you.

HEALTH CARE:

Harry Reid's health care oppression compromise will put us on the road to a single pay system. Duh. If it didn't Reid and his leftist buddies wouldn't have accepted it.

The House health care oppression bill will lead to states opting out of Medicaid and sticking the federal government with the full bill. I think the federal government would love this. More power to it. Less power for the states.

Obamacare is significantly less popular than Hillarycare was a year into Clinton's presidency. The Democrats learned from that mistake - never let the people know what they're doing.

"But the falling poll numbers tell us anyone who tries to force a full health-care debate that pushes a vote past the holidays will not suffer politically. One reason the Democrats are frantic for a vote before Christmas is that they fear what will happen if senators have to go home and talk with constituents before voting."

So Republican delay tactics may bear fruit yet.

Even the New York Times reports that the Democrat plan would make health insurance expensive.

Cato explains the bad options Harry Reid used to replace the public option.

"Moderates like Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman like the FEHBP model because the insurance plans are private rather than government entities. Liberals like Sen. Charles Schumer like it because it is government-regulated and managed.

In using the FEHBP as a model, however, Democrats have chosen an insurance plan whose costs are rising faster than average. FEHBP premiums are expected to rise 7.9 percent this year and 8.8 percent in 2010. By comparison, private-insurance premiums will rise on average by 5.5 to 6.2 percent annually in the next few years, the Congressional Budget Office predicts. In fact, FEHBP premiums are rising so fast that nearly 100,000 federal employees (who pay 30 percent of their plans' premiums) have opted out of the program."

If Democrats get Lieberman, that's bad.

GLOBAL WARMING:

Climategate finally gets people to question the veracity of all science. It's about time. Any project, science or anything else like housing, finance, health care, etc., funded or regulated by government is poisoned by the political agendas attached to the government money and regulations. In order to restore the values of science to the scientific community, and the values of Americans to all activities, we must end the government funding and regulations.

In the heat of the day at 3:15 PM with the bright sun beating down on Dayton, it's 18 degrees. All the heat being trapped by man-made CO2 is really making it hot all over the country.

Lindsay Graham compromises in hopes of getting global warming fraud legislation passed. This is why compromise, like bipartisanship, should be a four letter word. Like bipartisanship, compromise always means that aristocrats have agreed to conditions such that they all benefit from taking more money and more power from the people by force. When compromise and bipartisanship are reached, there's no obstacle to them taking money and power from us. The same thing is true with the health care compromise Harry Reid just orchestrated. Compromise and bipartisanship between aristocrats are the bane of freedom.

Republicans sending counter-delegation to Copenhagen to undermine Obama. Good for them. I doubt Lindsay Graham is in the delegation.

Sarah Palin and Al Gore in hair pulling contest over global warming. I'm rooting for injuries.

RULE OF LAW:

Being a war hero or anything else should never exempt one from being subject to the rule of law. If you're not willing to live with the terms of the contract, don't sign it.

WAR:

Defense department research firm RAND recommends a hybrid police/military national police force. No thank you.

FOREIGN POLICY:

China to raise wages of low and middle class by magic wand. This is a step back toward socialism and will cost China.

"The Chinese government is to raise the earnings of the middle and low income groups to boost consumer spending, said a senior economic planning official here Wednesday. "

Central planning is alive and well in China. The skyscraper index may catch up with China yet.

POLITICS:

Boortz views Obama's record in relation to his comment that he would be "ready to rule on day one."

MISC:

Ticket scalpers provide a valuable service. Otherwise nobody would buy from or sell to them.

Government has never sprung from divinity - always from force.

The important issues before Congress - health care oppression, global warming fraud and the BCS.

Coffee increases drunkenness. I don't drink coffee.

I've long known that poorer people give more money to charity than richer people just as I've long known that conservatives give far more than liberals.